Support Services

NASS Portsmouth offers regular hydrotherapy and physiotherapy sessions for people diagnosed with axial spondyloarthritis. All sessions are led by qualified physiotherapists.

Providing signposting and guidance, including immigration advice to current serving RN and RM and their families.

Our phone line and emails continue to operate as usual, face to face and virtual meetings are taking place.

Championing Royal Navy & Royal Marines families.

Providing signposting and guidance to current serving RN and RM and their families.

We are a specialist team of clinicians delivering specialist services to people with a learning disability within the Portsmouth area.

Bereavement support for children and young people.

As the tragedy of Covid-19 unfolds the death toll continues to rise, it won’t be long before everyone will know of someone who has died. Children and young people can be badly affected by loss and adults often don’t have the skills or courage to talk openly about it with them.

Nurtureuk has produced a specially edited version of their Bereavement Box that helps anyone supporting bereaved children and young people understand what they may be experiencing with helpful suggestions on approaches and exercises to help children cope better with their grief.

The Bereavement Guide is available to download free of charge

OpenSight is dedicated to supporting individuals living with, or at risk of, visual impairment. Whether you're looking for support for yourself or a loved one, we’re here to help.

OpenSight offer a range of services for those with visual impairments, ranging from low vision assessments and benefits advice to family support services and social clubs. We’re passionate about ensuring you’re able to remain independent.

We collaborate with you, your family, colleagues, and friends to navigate the practical and emotional aspects of vision impairment together.

Pamodzi creates inspirational spaces that facilitate creativity & challenges social inequalities. Pamodzi hosts the Inspirational Women of Portsmouth Awards and delivers schools and community projects.

Internet and/or Telephone Based

PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide is the UK charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people.

Internet and/or Telephone Based

PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide is the UK charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people.

Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Counselling Service (PARCS) is trauma informed service which aims to address sexual violence and domestic abuse in our community and across the UK by facilitating awareness through our training, supervision and consultancy to community groups and services.

PARCS is here to listen, believe and support you.

Our counselling service gives you an opportunity to talk to someone about your experiences and how they may be impacting you and your life. We offer a space to support you to heal and help empower you in being yourself and making your own choices. It can sometimes be hard to put your thoughts and feelings into words and make sense of your experiences. This is why we work with everyone as an individual with the clients need at the centre of everything we do. Sometimes you may wish to work creatively through drawings or objects, or you may just wish for your story to be heard. Whatever you bring, we are here for you.

Who can access this service 18+ Any victims/survivors of sexual violence or domestic abuse including non-recent and childhood abuse.

Areas we serve Portsmouth and Southeast Hampshire.

A new venue in Portsmouth by and for people under 30. We are re-imagining Playland – the abandoned arcade on Commercial Road – into a vibrant, youth-led creative space. And it’s a totally blank canvas…for now!

Wherever you are on your journey and whatever you are passionate about – Playland is a safe space to express yourself, and access opportunities to build skills and experience for your creative career.

We’re looking for young people aged 16 – 30 to help shape every part of this new space: from designing the blank-canvas interior into a functional and playful space, to planning what will take place there.

In return we’ll offer training, mentoring, and shadowing opportunities, and we will support you to make your ​‘dream’ events come true. This is a chance for you to co-create something from the ground up, shaping it as YOU think it should be.